The fact that Irenaeus’ views on the Kingdom were so soon overtaken with in the Great Church by the Platonizing, spiritualizing interpretation may have a good deal to do with the general neglect of his writings in the later tradition of the Church. Most medieval manuscripts of Adversus Haereses do not contain the final chapters of Book V, where Irenaeus’ eschatology is most fully presented. The desire to protect Irenaeus’ reputation for orthodoxy has not been confined to medieval copyists. In 1938, V. Cremers attempted to show that these pages were not the work of Irenaeus at all, but a later interpolation. Some scholars, though not embarrassed by the realism of Irenaeus’ expectations of the Kingdom have yet been at pains to urge that ‘there is not a single mention of the words “thousand years’ reign”’, so that it cannot be said that there are any ‘misplaced chiliastic tendencies in the Adversus Haereses’. However, the Armenian version of Books IV and V of Adversus Haereses, first published in 1910, shows these claims to be unsupportable. For from it we learn that even the one Latin manuscript that had been thought to preserve the whole of the text did, in fact, lack a small but crucial paragraph in the very heart of Irenaeus’ discussion of this subject. And in that paragraph Irenaeus speaks unequivocally of the thousand-year reign of the just. -Dennis Minns